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          ASSEMBLY THIRD READING


          AB  
          146 (Cristina Garcia)


          As Amended  February 25, 2015


          Majority vote


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          |Committee       |Votes |Ayes                |Noes                  |
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          |Education       |6-0   |O'Donnell, Kim,     |                      |
          |                |      |McCarty, Santiago,  |                      |
          |                |      |Thurmond, Weber     |                      |
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          |Appropriations  |13-1  |Gomez, Bonta,       |Gallagher             |
          |                |      |Calderon, Chang,    |                      |
          |                |      |Daly, Eggman,       |                      |
          |                |      |Eduardo Garcia,     |                      |
          |                |      |Gordon, Holden,     |                      |
          |                |      |Quirk, Rendon,      |                      |
          |                |      |Weber, Wood         |                      |
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          SUMMARY:  Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to consider  
          including content on the deportation of citizens and lawful  
          permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the  
          Great Depression in the next revision of the history-social  








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          science framework and adoption of related materials.   
          Specifically, this bill:  


          1)Requires the SBE, in the next revision of the history-social  
            science framework after January 1, 2016, to consider providing  
            for the inclusion in that framework, evaluation criteria, and  
            accompanying instructional materials, instruction on the  
            deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens  
            and lawful permanent residents of the United States.


          2)Encourages the California Department of Education (CDE) to  
            incorporate into publications that provide examples of  
            curriculum resources, age-appropriate materials that include  
            this topic.


          3)Encourages the incorporation of oral testimony into the teaching  
            of the deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of  
            the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression.


          4)Encourages state and local professional development activities  
            to provide teachers with content background and resources to  
            assist them in teaching about the deportation of citizens and  
            lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during  
            the Great Depression.


          EXISTING LAW:  


          1)Establishes the Instructional Quality Commission (formerly  
            called the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials  
            Commission) as an advisory body to the SBE on matters related to  
            curriculum, instructional materials, and content standards.










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          2)Requires the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) to consider  
            incorporating into the history-social science framework content  
            on specific historical events, including the Armenian,  
            Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides and the Great Irish  
            Famine of 1845 to 1850.


          3)Encourages the Department of Education to incorporate into  
            publications that provide examples of curriculum resources,  
            age-appropriate materials on the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur,  
            and Rwandan genocides.  Encourages the incorporation of  
            survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into  
            the teaching of human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide.


          4)Encourages state and local professional development activities  
            to provide teachers with content background and resources to  
            assist them in teaching about civil rights, human rights  
            violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  According to the Assembly Appropriations  
          Committee, One-time General Fund costs to the California  
          Department of Education (CDE) of approximately $160,000 to revise  
          the History-Social Science Framework to include the Deportation in  
          the adoption of instructional materials.


          COMMENTS:  


          Origin of this bill.  This bill was the winning proposal in a  
          legislative proposal competition sponsored by the author.  It was  
          submitted by a 5th grade class at Bell Gardens Elementary School  
          in the Montebello Unified School District. 


          Draft History-Social Science Framework revision includes  
          references to this event.  The draft revision to the  








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          History-Social Science Framework released in September 2014  
          includes some references to the deportation event.  In the chapter  
          of course descriptions for grades Kindergarten through grade five,  
          the following reference is included in a section on Modern  
          California:  "Students can also learn about other important events  
          in California's civil rights history, such as ? the forced  
          repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico that took  
          place during the Great Depression."  In the chapter of course  
          descriptions for grades nine through 12, the following reference  
          is made in a section on the Great Depression:  "The economic  
          crisis also led to the Mexican Repatriation Program, in which the  
          Secretary of Labor directed government agents to force nearly  
          400,000 Mexican migrants (both legal and illegal) out of the  
          country."


          History-social science framework adoption delayed.  The  
          History-Social Science standards currently in use were adopted in  
          1998, and the most recent framework was published in 2005.  The  
          Curriculum Commission (now the IQC) began work revising the  
          History-Social Science Framework in January of 2008.  A  
          significant amount of the process had been completed (focus  
          groups, selection of evaluation criteria committee members, five  
          drafting meetings) when in 2009 the state's fiscal emergency led  
          to a statutory suspension (AB 2 X4 (Evans), Chapter 2, Statutes of  
          2009-10of the Fourth Extraordinary Session) of instructional  
          materials adoptions and framework revisions until the 2013-14  
          school year.  That suspension was later extended until the 2015-16  
          school year (SB 70 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter  
          7, Statutes of 2011).


          The IQC began work again on the revision in July 2014, and  
          released the draft History-Social Science framework for field  
          review in September 2014.  The draft generated extensive public  
          comment it generated (nearly 700 comments).  The IQC also  
          determined that more subject matter expertise was needed for  
          certain areas (including some mandated for inclusion by  
          legislation), and submitted a budget request for $124,000 to hire  








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          experts through an interagency agreement.  These events have  
          caused significant delays in the production of the revised  
          framework.  Originally scheduled for adoption in May 2015, this  
          framework is now set to be recommended to the State Board by March  
          2016, with final publication in Fall 2016.




          Analysis Prepared by:                                               
                          Tanya Lieberman / ED. / (916) 319-2087  FN:  
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